$895.00 (member) / $975.00 (non member)
This exciting trip combines remote and rugged scenery, rare wildflowers and a little paleontology along the way. Denver Botanic Gardens curators Panayoti Kelaidis and Dan Johnson will lead you through an exploration of this fascinating wilderness. The Uinta Basin is a major center of biological diversity in the West: there are myriad Astragalus and penstemons found only in this vicinity, most of which will be in peak bloom at the time of this trip. No area in North America is currently more vulnerable to development than this fragile desert; the current oil and gas boom is threatening the only habitat of several rare, endemic plants. See it to believe it! You will stay in a beautiful 16-person log cabin outside Vernal, Utah for all 4 nights and enjoy three meals a day prepared by personal chef and Herb Gourmet Debbie Whittaker. All hikes will be of easy to moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners with no prior experience. Top off your experience with an optional half-day rafting trip and a visit to High Country Roses (www.highcountryroses.com), a unique nursery founded by Dr. Bill Campbell of Denver, with over 250 varieties of hardy own-root roses.
Trip fee includes van transportation from Denver, lodging and 3 meals a day.
Extended registration deadline: May 1, 2009.
Lodging: Loon Cabin at Six Lakes, Utah (www.sixlakesutah.com/cabins.php)
Guides: Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Outreach;
Dan Johnson, Associate Director of Horticulture and Curator of Native Plants
A $250 non-refundable deposit is required at the time of registration to reserve your space on a trip. The balance of the trip fee will be due two weeks (14 days) prior to the trip departure and will not be refundable after that date. Registration deadline: May 1
Please register at the member or non member rate, only $250 will be charged at the time of registration.
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